Chapter 280: The Study of Magical Scrolls

After temporarily setting aside the study of the Patronus Charm, Allen began researching the creation of magical scrolls.

He had not yet collected enough parameters of magical creature organs and parts, so he had not started designing new shapeshifted beasts—especially since he could now randomly obtain various Pokémon body parts, which would make designing new shapeshifted beasts even more interesting.

While studying the Zhizuo of magical scrolls, Allen chose to encode the transformation spell for the Phoenix-Eyed Blade Panther as his first magical scroll.

In truth, the Phoenix-Eyed Blade Panther’s combat power was not much stronger than that of a regular Blade Panther.

He chose the Phoenix-Eyed Blade Panther because he intended to make the scroll using the same method as crafting a wand—wands require cores, and transforming into the Phoenix-Eyed Blade Panther consumes magical materials produced by the phoenix, typically a single phoenix feather, which could serve perfectly as the scroll’s “core.”

After all, magical scrolls are disposable, so using up the “core” was no concern at all.

But Allen was unsure whether the magical material was consumed before the spell was cast or after it was released.

If consumed before casting, it meant he had to prepare a dedicated “core” for the scroll, because a scroll without a “core” could not transmit its parameters to the World Will.

If consumed after release, he could save the cost of one “core”—his finances were tight, and since magical scrolls were consumables, he might produce them in large quantities later, so reducing manufacturing costs wherever possible was essential.

Allen ultimately chose the hide of the Horned Camel as the scroll’s base, specifically purchasing the soft abdominal skin because its surface had the fewest patterns, making it ideal for engraving magical circuitry.

Engraving magical circuitry was a tedious task, especially since the four circuits required for wand-making were highly complex; if the carrier’s texture was intricate, the circuits had to be finely adjusted to match it, or the wand’s power would be compromised—in short, crafting a good wand was far harder than imagined.

He chose Horned Camel hide primarily for cost reasons—during the experimental phase, he should not waste precious magical materials.

After acquiring all the magical materials, Allen officially began his experiments.

First, he needed to engrave the four magical circuits onto the Horned Camel hide—he completed this smoothly, as engraving circuits on a flat surface was still relatively simple for Allen now.

Then, Allen needed to extract the memory containing the parameters for transforming into the Phoenix-Eyed Blade Panther from his mind and imprint it onto the hide, at which point he discovered the hide could not hold much memory—but this capacity was sufficient for experimental scrolls.

Allen placed these memories at the center of the “Translation” magical circuit, ensuring this circuit would prioritize translating the parameters within the memory.

Allen found memory to be a wondrous and useful thing—a non-physical information storage medium capable of holding vast data and easily attaching to various magical materials.

But its flaw was obvious: it dissipated easily. To solve this, Allen devised many solutions, and ultimately decided the best one was to add a metal ring to the rolled scroll, engraved with a Stasis Rune—a magical circuit that could “freeze” the scroll’s memory, thereby solving the dissipation problem at its root.

Allen tested this method and found the Stasis Rune not only “froze” the memory but also “froze” the scroll’s four magical circuits, greatly extending their lifespan, without impairing their functionality.

The four magical circuits were: Localization, Amplification, Synchronization, and Translation.

The “Localization” circuit primarily determined the direction the wand pointed.

It also transmitted the caster’s wand movements to the “Translation” circuit.

The function of the “Amplification” circuit was clear: it boosted the strength of the transmitted parameters to a level the World Will could receive.

Allen suspected the “Synchronization” circuit was strongly linked to both the “Amplification” and “Translation” circuits.

He suspected the so-called “wand chooses the wizard” phenomenon was tied to the “Synchronization” circuit—why did a wizard resonate with a wand? Why did a wand that worked perfectly in one person’s hand become ineffective in another’s?

Allen suspected it all related to the wizard’s brainwaves—the “Synchronization” circuit aligned the core’s unique fluctuation as closely as possible with the wizard’s brainwaves; when they matched, the wand had chosen the wizard; if they didn’t match and the wizard forced use, spell potency weakened.

Only when synchronized could the wizard and wand resonate, allowing the wand to take over the final step of spellcasting and amplify all parameters before releasing them.

The “Translation” circuit converted various inputs—wand movements, target, spoken incantation, and parametric details—into parameters sent to the World Will.

Of course, these were merely Allen’s personal speculations—the most reasonable guess he had about how wand casting worked.

He quickly produced a prototype magical scroll and discovered the metal ring engraved with the Stasis Rune also acted as a switch—destroying the ring activated the scroll’s magical circuits.

By the time he completed all this, a week had passed—this progress was undeniably breakthrough.

The scroll’s activation method was to break the metal ring attached to it, then swing the scroll, perform the wand motion for the transformation spell, and speak the incantation—after which the spell was cast.

Allen successfully cast the transformation spell using his HP-version magical scroll, summoning a Phoenix-Eyed Blade Panther.

The memory on the scroll dissipated rapidly after spellcasting, usable only once—so indeed, it was a consumable.

But it wasn’t entirely disposable: if Allen extracted the relevant memory from his mind again and reattached it to the scroll, then reattached a ring engraved with the Stasis Rune, the scroll could be reused.

In a sense, Allen could “recharge” the magical scroll.

But Allen’s focus had already shifted—he thought the scroll’s activation method was foolish and felt it could be improved...

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